yeah, but I like being able to climb walls, benchpress 10 tons, leap 50 feet straight up, shoot webs from my wrists and be alerted to danger before it occurs. Oh, and the crack-fiend like reflexes rock as well, heh heh.

Now if I can just find a way to mix in nightcrawlers teleporting powers, it would rock, lol.

That's actually from old comic books, not games kitten. My references were to spiderman and the x-men, his original references were to batman. heh heh... it's all good. I think we were both borded and silly at that point last night

As for being a newbie, I've always been pagan however I have been studying Wicca for almost a year and a day as recommended. Just last esbat my teacher ok'd my conducting Ostara for our coven, I was both terrified and elated. It depends on the student as my teacher said. If you can do it quicker so mote it be but always remember to use common sense and not get in over your head.

Not all who wander are lost-Tolkien.

Not all who wander are lost-Tolkien

Religion is like a finger pointing to the moon, we must not get so involved in the finger that we forget where it points.

You conducted that ritual? What about your partner in crime? me. You sleep with me every night but forget me so easily. Just giving you a hard time, if I didn't you wouldn't think I loved you Hee! Hee!

" Drive my dead thoughts over the universe like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!" -Shelley's Ode to the West Wind

Merry Meet, Merry Part, and Merry Meet again and may the god's perserve the craft

I'm a newbie, though when it comes to learning there is no newbie cause you can be 200 years old and still learning. The practice itself is an actual gradual proccess of getting better and stronger at it. and it's never the end result of being good at something that is satisfying, it's always the process for me.

I don't pray though, because, i just don't feel comfortable asking something to empower me, i want to empower myself, i'm an entity with a physical manifestation, and there's an abundance of energy all around me, so why not *shrug*.

Actually, it's a great bit of info - I have been spending the majority of this first year (since January) not devoting myself to study and practice (though I am also doing both of those) but to finding my inner self that will allow me to understand and utilize what I am studying and make my practice more meaningful. If you haven't got it on the inside you can't put on anything more than an obviously fake mask on the outside.